CMEBook-by-book coding instructions

ID # ACB1675
SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: AO
TITLE: Iacob and Iosep: a Middle English poem of the thirteenth century
ED. Arthur S. Napier
PUBLISHED: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
En-face? NO.
Key and code the following pages:
1. Title page (both sides) = pp. [iii-iv]
2. Main text = pp. 1-18
(excluding the unnumbered plate between pp. 8 and 9)
Structure
<FRONT> contains the title page only.
<BODY> contains no divisions except
verse lines <L>,
a heading <HEAD>[IACOB AND IOSEP]</HEAD>, and
a closer <CLOSER>Explicit Iacob &amp; Iosep.</CLOSER>
Milestones
1. Folio references appear in the margin in brackets,
like this:
[f. 1]
[f. 1b]
[f. 2]
[f. 2b]
Record as:
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="1a">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="1b">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="2a">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="2b">
Insert the <MILESTONE> tags at the end of the line opposite
which the folio references appear in the book.
Notes
There are a few editorial notes at the bottom of the
page, keyed to the text by footnote numbers.
Treat these in the usual way. Example (p. 6):
<L N="170">&amp; his sones
ten from<NOTE PLACE="foot">MS. <I>fron</I>.</NOTE>
felde come&thorn; hom,</L>
Characters
This edition uses the 7-shaped "tironian 'et'" frequently.
Record as &amp;.
It represents the manuscript's deletion mark by a dot
below a character (e.g. in the footnote on page 3).
Record this dot with the character entity &dotb;
('dot below'), placed after the character that is dotted.
<NOTE PLACE="foot"><I>alle</I>] MS. <I>alla&dotb;e.</I></NOTE>